Margaret Knight

PREFACE The chmate of thought regarding rehgion has changed profoundly in the last two decades. When, in 1955,1 gave two broadcasts entitled 'Morals without Religion', in which I expressed scepticism about the traditional Christian doctrines, I was subjected to a storm of abuse: today, similar...

Crumble away, society!' This was tlie cry of Des Esseintes, the hero of J.K. Huysmans' novel A Rebours (Against Nature) published in 1884, who had grown weary in his pursuit of pleasure and was fading away in sheer ennui. All the elaborate diversions which he had devised to sustain himself in an...